Obs. In quots. lyne; see also LIQUE. [a. OF. lin, ligne, ling(e.] Some kind of ship.
[c. 1394. Malverne, Contn. Higden (Rolls), IX. 91. Franci et Hispani in uno balynger et una lyna sulcantes maria circa ora maritima Angliæ.]
c. 1400. T. Walsingham, Hist. Angl. (Rolls), II. 135. Duæ grandes galeyæ, et aliud genus ratis quod vocatur ‘lyne,’ et una bargia, et septem balingariæ.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. cccxxviii. 514. He made redy for him a shyp, called the Lyne, the whiche wolde go on the see with all maner of wyndes without perell.
